Some Scheduling Notes
Tuesday--3rd Period--Senior Class Informational Meeting out in the Football Field Bleachers
Dress accordingly. . .
Wednesday--Focus on College Application Essays
10:30 a.m. Essay Writing Tips--presentation by a university admissions official
Career Center
1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Individual Essay Conferences
P14
Actual English Class
Today we took a first look at the five defining features of Anglo-Saxon poetry--the red bullets on p. 15. Then we started "The Seafarer" (starts on p. 17), accomplishing the first 26 lines. Students were to record phrases and line numbers that reflected the speaker's suffering in two categories: Physical Hardship and Mental/Emotional Hardship. If you were absent, you need to do that much on your own in your own notes.
For tomorrow--
Finish reading the poem. Yes, just read, but read it carefully. There will be some in class work that--though open-book--will be difficult to accomplish if it's your first pass through this poem.
You will be responsible for knowing quite a bit about the thinking and the "issues" (to borrow a modern word) of the speakers in each of the three lyric poems, and class activities and my own efforts to help you learn will be of little value if you don't assume responsibility for reading even when there is no required written homework. So I encourage you to take the reading assignments seriously.
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